Does Family Preservation Serve a Child's Best Interests?Georgetown University Press, 2 de ago. de 2000 - 168 páginas In this new volume, two distinguished professors of social work debate the question of whether family preservation or adoption serves the best interests of abused and neglected children. Arguing the merits of keeping families together whenever possible, Ruth G. McRoy examines the background, theory, and effectiveness of family preservation programs. She provides practical recommendations and pays particular attention to the concerns of African American children. Claiming that there is insufficient evidence that family preservation actually works, Howard Altstein counters that children from truly dysfunctional families should be given the chance for stable lives through adoption rather than left in limbo. |
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Overview of Family Preservation | 14 |
Empirical Support for Family Preservation and Kinship Care | 23 |
Adoption Challenges | 41 |
Family Preservation in the New Millennium | 50 |
PART TWO | 57 |
Family Preservation What Does the Research Say? | 59 |
Kinship Care | 79 |
Transracial Adoption | 97 |
Responses | 113 |
Commentary | 115 |
Response to McRoy | 121 |
Response to Altstein | 127 |
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Impact on Child Welfare of the Multiethnic Placement and Adoption and Safe Families Acts | 87 |
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abuse and neglect adopted children adoptees Adoption and Safe adoptive families adoptive parents African American children African American families agencies Altstein Barth behavior Berrick Berry birth families birth parents black child black children child abuse child welfare services child welfare system children in foster children in kinship develop dysfunctional effective environment evaluation factors family members family preservation interventions family preservation programs family preservation services family reunification federal foster care system foster children foster families foster parents funding goal Haapala Hispanic home-based Homebuilders inracial adoption intensive family preservation kinship care kinship foster MEPA National needs number of children option out-of-home placement outcomes parental rights Pecora percent permanency plan placed practice preservation and kinship prevent problems race removed reported response reunification Safe Families Act social learning social learning theory social workers substance abuse success TANF termination of parental theory tion transracial adoption transracial placements white families
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